A Guide to the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Virginia Papers
A Collection in the
Special Collections Department
Accession number 1750
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.
Preferred Citation
Women's Christian Temperance
Union
of Virginia Papers, Accession 1750, Special Collections Department, University of
Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
This collection (# 1750 ) was put on deposit 1938-1953.
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Scope and Content
This collection consists of 365 items (3.5 Hollinger boxes,
ca. 1.5 linear shelf feet), 1882-1958, papers of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
(
Women's
Christian Temperance Union
) of Virginia , a women's
organization whose purpose was to prevent the sale and
consumption of alcohol in
Virginia . The collection is arranged in
three series: I. Correspondence and History File, II.
Convention Programs and Proceedings, Publications,
Photographs, Memorabilia, and Scrapbook, III. Bound Volumes
and Printed Materials.
The correspondence includes letters to
Amy C. Weech , Director of the
Virginia Women's Christian Temperance Union
Evangelistic Department and Mrs.
Mrs. Walter [Maude] H. Page ,
Vice-President of the
Virginia
Women's Christian Temperance
Union
during the period in which the 18th amendment
was repealed and includes a letter from Governor
John Garland Pollard . The history file
includes a
Governor's Proclamation of Youth Temperance Education
Week by Governor
William A. Tuck . The major portion of the
collection consists of minute books of state conventions and
local union business meetings from 1882-1958. The scrapbook
consists of
Women's Christian Temperance
Union
literature produced by the
Fair and Exhibits Department .
Organizational History
The
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
of
Virginia was founded January 2, 1883, five years
after the first local union was organized at
Lincoln, Virginia . The object of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union
was to
organize local unions throughout the state in order to
eliminate liquor sales and production. The first efforts of
the
Women's Christian Temperance Union
were to
secure legislative adoption of the
Local Option Law to enable localities to
individually vote on the sale of liquor in each. The
Virginia
Women's Christian Temperance
Union
successfully agitated for the
Scientific Temperance Instruction
Law which mandated a temperance curriculum in state
public schools. The
Women's Christian Temperance Union
worked
for National Prohibition which occurred with the passage of
the
Eighteenth Amendment in 1920. Though
dismayed by the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the
Virginia
Women's Christian Temperance
Union
continued to work for temperance, especially
among
Virginia 's youth, and broadened its
reform program beyond temperance, taking stands against
gambling, poor working conditions, and smoking through
educational and legislative activities.
Alderman Library holdings include a
variety of collections on the
Virginia Women's Christian Temperance
Union
. Provenance: See individual accession numbers
for provenance information.
Virginia Women's Christian Temperance Union
State
Presidents
Mrs.
William H. Pleasants , 1883, Jan.-Oct.
Mrs.
Rebecca D. Wilson , 1883-1866.
Mrs.
William H. Pleasants , 1886-1888.
Mrs.
R. H. Jones , 1888-1898.
Mrs.
Howard M. Hoge , 1898-1938.
Mrs.
Amy C. Weech , 1938-1942.
Mrs.
Herbert W. Phillips , 1942-1950.
Mrs.
Roy T. Jarrett , 1950-1958.
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Amy C. Weech
- Herbert W. Phillips
- Howard M. Hoge
- John Garland Pollard
- Mrs. Walter [Maude] H. Page
- R. H. Jones
- Rebecca D. Wilson
- Roy T. Jarrett
- William A. Tuck
- William H. Pleasants
Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- Lincoln, Virginia
- Virginia
- Women's Christian Temperance Union
Container List
- Box 1 1930-1936, n.d.
- Box 1 1935-1937, n.d.
- Box 1 1882, 1905, 1917, 1937-1949, n.d.
- Box 1 1903-1958
- Box 1 1941
- Box 1 1942
- Box 1 1912, 1915
- Box 1
Local Union Directory, Pamphlets and Newsletter, Prize Essays1943-1947, 1957, n.d.
- Box 1 1895, 1936-1942, n.d.
- Box 1
Memorabilian.d.
- Box 2 ca.1940-1942
- Box 2 ca.1940-1942
- Box 2
Anti-Monroe Doctrine Society1945-1948
- Box 2 1882-1885
- Box 2 1883
- Box 2 1887
- Box 2 1903-1906
- Box 2 1906-1908
- Box 3 1906-1909
- Box 3 1909-1910
- Box 3 1911-1917
- Box 3 1912-1916
- Box 3 1936-1942
- Box 3 1942-1945
- Box 3 1942-1952
- Box 3 1957-1958
- Box 4
Except from Memories of the Crusade by Mother Stewart1889
- Box 4
Statue of Miss Frances E. Willard (Proceedings of Dedication)1905
- Box 4
Virginia Call1931-1939
- Box 4 1938
- Box 4 1948